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Psychologists, state delegates, police o cers, porn stars, sex tra ck- ing victims, former pimps and former buyers of sex workers. Student journalists inverviewed these people to film “Sex and Money: A National Search for Human Worth,” which ’ grad Isaac Gill presented on Friday. Gill has been working with the “Sex and Money” lm team to spread awareness about sex tra cking in America. “Right before I graduated, I heard about cases of sex tra cking abroad,” Gill said, “and I knew it was an issue in the U.S., but I had no idea how bad BECKY SULLIVAN / THE BREEZE it was.” BECKY SULLIVAN / THE BREEZE Gill then got involved with this Isaac Gill (’09 alumnus) presented the The aesthetic and technical designs for the musical “Sweeney Todd” began last semester. Some of the larger group of journalists and joined the documentary about sex traffi cking on props include a large painted backdrop, a collapsible barber’s chair and a revolving platform. tour across the U.S. last year. He Friday. “I had no idea how bad it was.” made a special trip to JMU because he was a former leader of InterVarsi- Forbes’ ‘Sweeney Todd’ is the biggest production it has attempted ty Christian Fellowship, a faith-based extremely appealing. group that invited him to present the “I got into the trade at ,” one documentary. female victim said in the documen- By LAURA WEEKS have been in full gear since January, including the According to Gill, between , tary. “My pimp told buyers I was , The Breeze -by--foot backdrop portraying an s Lon- and , minors are sexually but it was obvious that I wasn’t. ey don skyline. exploited across America. “Mean- didn’t care.” After three months of detailed engineering and “Our director felt that to tell the story, we wanted while, most Americans are oblivious Victims of sex trafficking saw designing, “Sweeney Todd” is ready for his rst to see the world of the inhabitants,” said Burgess, to this staggering truth,” Gill said. their pimps as their only source of shave. who cites “Sweeney Todd” as a project that comes “As a result, what started as a glob- a ection, whether it was a fatherly e main stage production at the Forbes Center along “once every years.” al search for human worth became relationship or a lover. for the Performing Arts, opening tomorrow night, The barber’s chair sits atop the massive set. a national search for human worth.” “Pimps prey on young girls in foster is one of both fantastical scenery and technical A quick pull of the lever and the bottom half Most victims of sex tra cking are care,” another former prostitute said precision. of the chair collapses, sending the ill-fated lured into the business around in the film. “They offer a love, and “ is is by far the biggest production we’ve ever customer down a wooden slide hidden under- to , and it’s become the second the delusion of a glamorous life and attempted,” said John Burgess, director of technical neath a trap door and onto a stack of foam. largest organized crime in America, money. I called him ‘Daddy’ and he production for the School of eatre and Dance. Burgess, along with four students from the engi- according to the Coalition Against acted like he loved me, but he didn’t. “What we’re going for is a regional theatre-cali- neering, math and technical design departments, Tra cking in Women International. He only wanted money.” ber production, in terms of the quality level and collaborated to ensure the chair’s safety and tech- Sex tra cking victims were young In the lm, Derek Williams, a for- the way the set works and the way it’s built and nical precision. and vulnerable when drawn to the mer pimp, explained his experience painted.” e second-biggest undertaking is a revolving business, Gill explained. They met in selling girls’ bodies to “Johns,” or Burgess, who serves as the musical’s scenic platform, which showcases the parlor, pie shop pimps on the streets after running buyers of sex. designer and technical director, began making and cellar in Todd’s house. e platform is part of away from abusive families or fos- “Anybody can control a woman’s plans for the set last semester. Much of the stu- ter care. Pimps o ered them shelter, body, but only a pimp can control dent-produced aesthetic and technical designs see SWEENEY, Page A10 clothing and material needs. To young girls with nowhere else to go, see TRAFFICKING, page A4 these men and their o erings were ‘ ere’s nobody who could fi ll his shoes’ Friends, colleagues remember life of professor Frank Arasanyin, who died a er fi ve-year fi ght with colon cancer
By ALISON PARKER probably illegal,” Zimmerman said. “He could walk into a room of was always kind and who never cared and JEN EYRING “He didn’t really know the area that strangers and be friends with every- about rank or seniority. The Breeze well, and he’d always ask, ‘Where can one before he left,” Burton said. “He was also a big man in every I get a good steak?’ If we got a salad, “Students loved taking his courses, sense of the word — body, mind and Professor Frank Arasanyin died on he’d give us a hard time and say, ‘No, and faculty responded positively to spirit,” Klein said in an email. “He Feb. at the age of after ghting get good food, lots of food.’ ” him because he was a relationship certainly had a presence about him: colon cancer for ve years. He was ese lunch meetings were more builder.” his big smile, infectious laugh and a Nigerian prince, speaker of nine than just a professional gathering. Arasanyin carried this persona into immaculate way of dressing.” languages, former associate of the Arasanyin saw them as opportuni- the classroom. According to his wife, Victoria, United Nations and world traveler. ties for the committee to grow closer. “He was really personable and Arasanyin hoped to open students’ But Traci Zimmerman best remem- “He made the work time really always joking,” said Jessica Arienti, minds to the idea that everyone is bers him for packed cars and debates playful, and we were able to get so a junior WRTC major. “I sometimes equal, often telling students that if over what to have for lunch. much done because he had that ener- wore [Greek] letters, so he would call their parents were ever in the hospi- Zimmerman, a WRTC professor gy,” Zimmerman said. “I learned all me ‘Sorority Girl,’ or a boy in my class tal and needed blood, they wouldn’t and the interim chairwoman of the these things about colleagues that I had dreadlocks, and he called him ask for black blood or white blood. curriculum committee, worked with didn’t know, just because he pressed ‘Rasta Boy.’ He knew our names, but “ at’s how he sees humanity: It Arasanyin on the committee. Arasan- the issue of us going out to lunch.” he wanted to see the other side of us, doesn’t matter to him if you are a poor yin, also a WRTC professor, led the Arasanyin was described as warm too, and by talking to us this way, he man on the streets or the president,” committee in nishing an overhaul and personable by most who knew really got us to open up.” Victoria said. “You are the same.” of the department curriculum in only COURTESY OF KRISTIN KNAPP him, including his friend and col- Courtney Railing, a sophomore rough his African proverbs and six months. Frank Arasanyin, 57, died on Feb. 10 of league Larry Burton, director of the marketing major, found it hard to sayings, Arasanyin taught WRTC fac- “He insisted we work through the colon cancer. Arasanyin was a WRTC WRTC department. Burton rst hired nd the words to describe Arasany- ulty and his students values they will summer on this, and we’d work these professor and on the department’s Arasanyin while he was working at in’s classroom presence. never forget. two- or three-hour meetings,” Zim- curriculum committee. the University of Georgia about “He always made it very interest- “He once said, ‘In my country, we merman said. years ago and hired him again as a ing,” Railing said, “and he always tied believe that to get to the sea you have In between these meetings, the professors into his car. JMU professor in , giving him the in stories from home.” Arasanyin encouraged the entire “He’d even crush people in the chance to create his own linguistics Michael Klein, a WRTC professor, see ARASANYIN, page A4 group to go out to lunch, packing all trunk and we’d all go, thinking it was program. described Arasanyin as a man who
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Bye amb r logsdon the sport is its promotion of women contributing writer of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds. “I love that there’s a sport that On the flat track of Funky’s Skate allows women to go out and be phys- Center on South Main Street, Paula ically aggressive,” Kiser said. “They Kiser is known as “Grim Nemesis,” don’t think that because you’re a girl inspired by the Greek goddess of that you can’t hit someone, or be hit, divine retribution. and we’re not going to cry about it.” But when the skates are off, she can Scoring points is a team effort. One be found behind the circulation desk girl on each team, known as a “jam- in Carrier Library. mer,” skates through a pack of the She has been involved with the opposing team’s “blockers.” For every Rocktown Rollers, a roller derby team blocker that the jammer successfully made up of players from all over the passes, the team gains points. Kiser Shenandoah Valley, since the team is a blocker, whose main purpose is started in 2008. to prevent the jammer from moving Kiser started studying at JMU in through the pack. 2002 as a history major. She got her Beth Pleasants, known as “Betty master’s in 2008 and has been work- CrasHer,” calls Kiser a “phenomenal ing at Carrier since 2010. blocker.” “When I’m on the track, and I see One of her favorite things about someone consistently going after one Kiser are the braids she wears dur- of my teammates,” Kiser said. “I kind of ing bouts. take it upon myself to make sure that “It’s like a rattlesnake tail because I make them not effective anymore.” you know you’re about to get ruined,” Janna Bayse, also known as “Jan- Pleasants said. na-cide,” helped found the Rocktown Some of her teammates think Kiser Rollers. She was friends with Kiser for is an advocate for doing everything in years before Bayse decided to start the proper form. Barbi Cole, who joined team. the team last year as “Doll Nightmare,” “I kept poking her husband, Aaron, said one of her crowning achieve- to start coming and to ref,” Bayse said. ments was getting a compliment on “Then, he ribbed her into it. I had to her push-ups from Kiser. Courtesy of Paula Kiser leave her husband to do it.” “She’ll get in the middle and From there, a love affair with roller show you how it’s done,” Cole said. Paula Kiser (left) has been playing on the Rocktown Rollers derby team with the alias of “Grim Nemesis” since its derby quickly developed. beginning in 2008. The 25-woman team includes bankers, doctors, cashiers, librarians and teachers from the valley. One thing Kiser really loves about see derby, page A4
in brief Center caters to both women, men affected by unplanned pregnancies campus DMV to go By IJ Chan maternity clothing, baby clothing, The Virginia Department of Motor contributing writer diapers and baby wipes. Maintained Vehicle’s mobile service center, DMV by a small paid staff, HPC has about 2 Go, is bringing the service to the Amid growing political debate 50 volunteers, some of which are bookstore to serve students, faculty over reproductive rights, a local JMU students. and staff Wednesday from 9 a.m. to center hopes to act as a shelter from Upon calling the center, a stu- 4 p.m. the potential turmoil that can come dent is usually scheduled to receive The mobile unit has handicap along with pregnancy. treatment within one or two days. accessibility and an office which The Harrisonburg Pregnancy Treatment usually consists of free provides driver’s licenses and ID Center, a Christian nonprofit orga- access to ultrasounds and pregnan- cards, disabled parking stickers, nization, focuses on dissolving cy confirmation. license plates and decals. anxiety associated with unplanned “I think the center is a good pregnancies. About half of the 6.7 resource for women on campus,” Virginia million pregnancies in the U.S. said Donya Mossadeghi, a freshman are unplanned, according to the communication studies major, “but I MCAT to include Guttmacher Institute, a nonprofit don’t think it should be faith-based. I new section organization that promotes sexual p aul jones / the breeze don’t think that religion should have A social science section will be added and reproductive health through In 2011, the Harrisonburg Pregnancy Center served 565 women and gave $15,335 anything to do with it.” to the Medical College Admission Test research, analysis of policies and in material services, such as maternity and baby clothing, diapers and wipes. Tori Lugar, a freshman declared by 2015, according to InsideHigherEd. public education. SMAD major, appreciates the cen- This will be the first major revision Located at 833 Cantrell Ave., HPC informed decision, though on its ter’s attitude and doesn’t dwell on the exam has undergone since has been open since 1984. In 2011, Facebook page the center supports “Hey, you may be its religious views. 1991. The new section, which tests HPC served 565 women and gave the passage of a new Virginia bill that young, you may still be “I don’t necessarily think it’s a the social component of health, is $15,335 in material services, such as would require all women to receive bad or a good thing,” Lugar said. “It’s meant to help students embrace the maternity clothing and baby clothing an ultrasound before an abortion. in college, you know good that try to help you out, too. It’s more diverse role they will take on to mothers, explained Susan Null, The majority of HPC’s clientele you can still graduate not like they’re like, ‘Oh, you’re hav- as doctors in a culturally integrated HPC’s executive director. are between the ages of 17 and 24, ing an abortion, so we’re not going world. “I think [the community resourc- and Null said the center has seen an and you can still have to help you, sorry.’ ” es] are really significant,” Null said, increasing number of JMU students. a great, great future. ” In addition to serving the women “particularly to students who say, HPC seeks to educate clients about of Harrisonburg, HPC also strives Jury deliberations to ‘I’m in this bubble, I’m not from this options such as adoption, pregnancy Kris Ortiz to reach out to fathers-to-be in the begin in murder trial community,’ to know that there is a and abortion. ‘10 graduate, HPC volunteer community by offering support from Deliberations in George Huguely’s place in Harrisonburg that you can Kris Ortiz, once a drug dealer male volunteers. first degree murder trial will begin go to that’s free, that’s confidential, while at JMU, said he’s embraced “Women need to know that they Wednesday, according to The Huff- that’s close by, that’s well-estab- the HPC for its role in the commu- are strong, they are smart, they are ington Post. lished in the community, that you nity since he graduated in 2010. Now is here to show these women that, capable,” Null said, “and I think George Huguely, a former lacrosse can go to if you find yourself in an a liaison between Aletheia Church ‘Hey, you may be young, you may that’s one of the greatest things player at University of Virginia, unplanned pregnancy.” and the center, Ortiz wants to make be still in college, you know you can that we offer, is the encouragement is accused of killing on-and-off Null said the center doesn’t up for past decisions. still graduate and you can still have and the support to say, ‘If you want girlfriend Yeardley Love on May 3, advocate for or oppose abortion. “I made a lot of stupid mistakes, a great, great future.’ ” to have this baby, you can do it.’ ” 2010. Love was another U.Va. student The center encourages its clientele, and I hurt girls really, really a lot The center has a material ser- and member of the women’s lacrosse after a positive pregnancy test, to in my time as a JMU student,” said vices program that offers women Conta ct IJ Chan at team. receive an ultrasound to make an Ortiz, “but the pregnancy center free access to necessities such as [email protected].
Building with bluestone Rock used in many of JMU’s iconic buildings has a long history By mary marks David Frazier’s uncle. College was first constructed, build- contributing writer The calcium carbonate’s natural ings were made with bluestone color is light gray. foundations because a natural quar- In 460 million B.C., the Shenando- “Just tap it [with a hammer],” he ry sat in the middle of JMU’s campus. ah Valley was under water. said. “It’s pure blue underneath.” Maury and Jackson Halls were built Today, Harrisonburg sits on the But Bibb doesn’t urge students to in 1909 and Ashby Hall followed in limestone rock that was left behind hammer at bluestone buildings to try 1911, all of which are located near the when the seas receded. We call it to see them change color. It takes hun- Quad and made of bluestone. “bluestone.” dreds and hundreds of wet-dry cycles Bibb said bluestone is “about The most recent bluestone work for the color change to occur. four times as expensive” as concrete includes the Forbes Center for the Frazier Quarry, located on Water- blocks, which could explain why there Performing Arts, the backside of Way- man Drive in Harrisonburg, uses an are many buildings made of brick on land Hall, work on Hoffman Hall, the excavator to pull bluestone boul- campus. reconstruction of the Steam Plant next ders out of a hole big enough to hold Bluestone foundations of original to Bridgeforth Stadium and the pro- Bridgeforth Stadium. barns and houses can be found on posed Duke Hall renovation. JMU uses bluestone “wherever it is Main, Franklin, Campbell and Grattan Because of chemical weathering, aesthetically, historically and archi- Streets as well as many others in Har- it usually takes seven to 10 years for tecturally appropriate,” said Win Hunt, risonburg and the Shenandoah Valley. the stone to become gray, explained director of facilities planning and con- It’s even in concrete, roads and David Frazier, sales representative of struction at JMU, in an email. asphalt. Frazier Quarry. The standard price for bluestone “You’re on it anywhere Bluestone absorbs rainwater and from Frazier Quarry is $360 per ton, you’re driving, anywhere “as the stone dries, water wicks away making the amount of bluestone you’re walking,” David said. and evaporates, leaving the molecule required to renovate Duke Hall about Paul jones / the breeze calcium carbonate,” said Bibb Frazier, $108,000. Conta Mary Marksct at Bluestone color, which makes up Wilson Hall, comes from absorbed rainwater, leaving vice president of Frazier Quarry and In the early 1900s, when Madison [email protected]. a calcium carbonate residue. The stone is about four times as expensive as concrete. A4 Monday, February 20, 2012 breezejmu.org news derby | ‘I kept going’ Culture in from page A3 pack,” Kiser said. “I was almost the name of on my way out, and I had two But Kiser’s favorite moment of the girls on the other team children doesn’t come from blocking or come and try to hit me and they The Vietnamese Student Association showing people the right way just bounced off. They came in, held its annual culture show in Wilson Hall to do calisthenics. Instead, she they made contact, they fell and on Saturday night. The show featured a looks back fondly at a moment I kept going. It was awesome.” mix of 10 traditional and modern dramatic from a match. acts representing Vietnamese culture, “One of the bouts, they threw Contc a t Amber including a fashion show. The year’s me in as a jammer. I can usu- Logsdon at logsdoan@ event was free with a donation box for ally fight my way through a dukes.jmu.edu. the VSA’s chosen charity, the Foundation for the Children of Vietnam, a nonprofit organization which provides assistance to impoverished children in Vietnamese Arasanyin orphanages and children’s hospitals. ‘I miss him deeply’ alex thornton / the breeze from front was the power of determination. “For Frank, everyone had to first follow the river,” Bur- the potential to do great ton said, “meaning you always things if they worked hard,” have to follow a path to find Klein said. “His life is certain- your answers. He made me ly a testament to that. I am T rafficking | Happening in Virginia believe in the value of diplo- honored to have been able macy. Not just tactfulness, but to call him a friend and col- trying to work with everyone league. I miss him deeply.” from front “It’s disturbing to know it’s agencies about sex trafficking to achieve a common goal. happening here,” said Schi- “It’s disturbing to know in their communities. There’s nobody who could fill Contc a t Alison Parker a women’s mind,” Williams avo, a social work major. “I it’s happening here. The organization will his shoes.” and Jen Eyring at said. “When I had seven girls, hope this brings more aware- donate the sales of merchan- Arasanyin’s lesson to Klein [email protected]. none of my girls could come ness to the problem.” I hope this brings dise to raise $1.1 million for in with less than $500 a night, This cause has impacted more awareness Streetlight, a Phoenix, AZ- six days a week, at the peak of Gill, who said he cried the first based restoration home that my pimping.” time he saw the documentary. to the problem.” shelters child sex-trafficking “Sex and Money” also “I had a porn addiction Lauren Schiavo survivors. reveals that a “John” could be when I was at JMU,” Gill said. sophomore social The Shenandoah Valley Jus- an average person, not neces- “I led Christian worship at work major tice Initiative, a community “News is a first sarily someone found on the JMU, and I kept my addiction nonprofit, builds relationships street. a secret. I felt like the least with local officials, police and “It was so shocking how qualified person to help on delegates to end sex traffick- rough draft of prevalent sex trafficking is,” this project.” ing in the Shenandoah Valley said Josh Harris, a senior But Gill ended his porn for rehabilitation and other and Virginia. health sciences major who addiction while on the U.S. resources and connect anti- “It’s pretty safe to say that history.” saw the film. “The buyers documentary tour because sex trafficking programs, it’s happening everywhere in aren’t just impoverished he felt that it corrupted soci- according to its website. Virginia,” Gill said. “There are people. It’s doctors, teachers ety and encouraged human The team is partnering with a lot of avenues for that activ- and wealthy people. There trafficking. Shared Hope International to ity with highway 81 so close to - Philip L. Graham needs to be more awareness “People think that their release a new grading system JMU, and truck stops are a big in America.” gratification is more impor- that measures each state’s spot for trafficking. It’s up to Sophomore Lauren Schia- tant than the life of another response to sex trafficking. It’s us to change that and make Become a part of that history. vo, who is on the Intervarsity human being,” Gill said. working to promote Neigh- a difference in victims’ lives.” hospitality team, helped hand “Sex and Money” has borhood Watch systems so Email [email protected]. out fliers and sell merchan- three main goals: to raise citizens can identify and Contc a t Anne Elsea at dise for the event. awareness, fund centers inform local law enforcement [email protected].
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OpinionEDITOR Katie Sensabaugh EMAIL [email protected] Monday, February 20, 2012 A5 CHRIS JUSTIS | justice is served Reproductive rights need protection Major letdown Dangerous new legislation could bring back century-old contraception laws
While we weren’t paying atten- fetus has just as many rights as she bodies and what they choose to do tion, the Virginia House of Delegates does. with them. passed (by a In Mississippi, the bill didn’t pass Some of the rhetoric supporting - vote) because of public “save the pill” cam- this bill is ridiculous. Abortions are a radical bill paign, according to e Washington “matters of lifestyle convenience” that would Post. Unfortunately though, in Vir- and this bill would only “adjust” allow embryos ginia, the public can’t vote on the lifestyles, said Todd Gilbert, at the point of issue because the Republicans in the R-Shenandoah, about the bill. conception to House decided only legislators would is bill lays the groundwork to have the same vote on the bill. outlaw abortion as well, but it isn’t rights as peo- stopping there. Vivian Watts, a Dem- ple. Virginia It would be equivalent to ocrat from Fairfax County called out isn’t the first state to propose this the Republicans by asking them to legislation. e only di erence is that saying that a pregnancy make an amendment saying this bill the other states shot it down because isn’t between a woman, wouldn’t a ect birth control. Unfor- it was so extreme. It was thrown out tunately, though, that amendment not once, but twice in Colorado and her partner and her was shot down by a - vote. even denied in Mississippi. physician, but between the If this bill passes, men and women is isn’t simply an anti-abortion will have to leave the state to receive law. is is a law that would make fetus and the government. contraception. This isn’t about some forms of birth control like the whether you’re anti-abortion rights pill and Plan B illegal. is bill will or not. This is about less govern- give fetuses more of a right to life Virginia would be the rst state in ment regulation in our reproductive than the mothers. It would mean that the country to pass this bill. E ective- privacy. every right under the Bill of Rights ly, we’d be stepping back hundreds of Republicans advocate less gov- applies to fetuses as soon as “an egg years in the past. It would be equiva- ernment, yet inject their personal and sperm unite,” which is what the lent to saying that a pregnancy isn’t beliefs into a woman’s womb. is bill speci cally says. between a woman, her partner and has gone too far and needs to be For example, let’s say a woman is her physician, but between the fetus stopped. raped or her life is in jeopardy. ese and the government. are obviously two awful scenarios. If this bill passes, which it is dan- Chris Justis is a junior justice She wouldn’t be able to consider an gerously close to, the government studies major. Contact Chris at abortion under this bill because the would have control over women’s [email protected].
ALINA GASPERINO | guest columnist Alcohol advertising positive move Bill allowing publicity of happy hour specials benefi ts owners, customers
Always wanted to explore happy according to the Happyhourwatch Times. The bill went to the Senate hours in Harrisonburg? Figuring out Blog, a blog that helps people search on Feb. and was referred to the what bars o er the best deals would their area for local drinking specials. Rehabilitation and Social Services be a lot easier if a Virginia bill allow- As you can imagine, this means Committee. If approved, they’ll be ing restaurants to advertise drink attracting business is a little more cutting bar owners some slack. specials gets approved. difficult for bar owners in Virgin- While this might alarm some Since , Virginia law has pre- ia, especially in Northern Virginia people, I don’t see anything wrong vented restaurants with liquor because they compete with others with it. Some are concerned about licenses from advertising discounted in places like Washington, D.C. and the e ect if would have on drinking beverages, like happy hour specials. Maryland. culture. Some argue that seeing the is includes storefront, online and The House of Delegates voted to deals publicly could encourage peo- iers. ease restrictions on Feb. on adver- ple to plan where they go to get drunk e laws “were designed to pro- tising drink specials by allowing as quickly and cheaply as possible. mote temperance by limiting the Internet advertising for happy hour ability to sell reduced-price drinks,” specials, according to Alexandria see BARS, page A8
DANIEL WILSON | guest columnist DARTS PATS Too much taxing Darts & Pats are anonymously submitted and printed on a space-available basis. Submissions creatively depict a given situation, person or event and do not necessarily refl ect the truth. Obama’s budget will hinder job production, encourage overseas investment Submit Darts & Pats at breezejmu.org
In the name of class warfare all destroying American jobs in the taxed at a rate of percent because An “I-have-a-lot-of-catching- A “GIT-R-DONE” pat to politics, President Barack Obama process. that same income has already been up-to-do” pat to the brilliant everyone on campus who is released a budget with . trillion Lastly, everybody who owns taxed at a rate of percent at the man who so kindly introduced wearing camou age. in tax hikes over the next decade tar- stocks, which is roughly half of all corporate level. In other words, me to Darts & Pats last week. 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From Robin Sparkles, During a time with more than In actuality, as The Wall Street From a Duke who’s faster than Schmosby, Marshmallow and million Americans out of work, the work, the last thing Journal recently pointed out on Jan. you even without the gear. Lilypad. last thing you want to do is impose you want to do is , Romney and Bu ett have a tax rate higher tax rates on job creators. closer to percent. Around percent of tax filers in impose higher tax As far as the rich not paying their A “this-is-the-best-accident- A “smells-like-good-ol’- the highest tax bracket report busi- rates on job creators. fair share, the top percent pays since-my-conception” pat to JMU-spirit” pat to that ness income, according to the Tax nearly percent of all the income Burger Studio. all-too-familiar aroma of dog Foundation. taxes while the bottom percent From a senior who loved the food that lls the air before and Higher taxes on businesses will pays nothing, according to the Inter- free bacon mistakenly put on his after it rains. most certainly destroy jobs. Business- e higher tax lowers the reward nal Revenue Service. burger. From a soon-to-be graduating es will have less after-tax income to for owning a stock, which then reduc- A study by the Organisation for senior who, daresay, may expand production and employment. es the demand for stocks, causing the Economic Co-operation and Devel- actually miss that eau d’Iams e incentives to make new invest- entire stock market to be worth less. opment in also showed that A “you’re-not-the-only-ones- someday soon. ments in potential breakthroughs are Since savings and investments are the the richest percent of households without-a-raise” dart to the minimized since you’re asking inves- key to long-term economic growth, in the U.S. have the highest ratio of faculty members complaining tors to take risks for a diminished rate the capital gains tax should be abol- income taxes paid to the share of about no raises in the past few A “this-tastes-like-a- of return from higher taxes. ished, not raised. income earned, giving the U.S. the years. Cadbury-egg-spiked-with- Take a look at the capital gains tax Even though most economists most progressive income tax system From a sta member who coffee” pat to the Carrier — a tax on investments, not income believe higher taxes slow down in the industrialized world. works just as hard year-round, Starbucks barista who nished — which Obama wants to raise from economic prosperity, the Obama Higher taxes on productive behav- and also hasn’t seen a raise for the the caramel syrup in my to percent. Capital gains taxes administration is sold on the belief ior is detrimental for society as a same amount of time as you. macchiato. are paid whenever you sell an asset, that the rich in this country (for whole and living standards and eco- From a caramel-lover who such as a bond or a stock, for a prof- example Warren Buffett and Mitt nomic growth become compromised thanks you for this magical candy it. Since investments are now being Romney) need to pay an elevated when innovation and hard work get A “thanks-for-the-love” pat beverage pick-me-up. taxed at a higher rate, consumption tax rate. penalized by draconian tax rates. to the woman working at the becomes more attractive. Obama wrongfully claims that very The rich already pay more than Festival Deli who drew a smiley Currently, the U.S. economy des- wealthy individuals earning their their fair share, and asking them to face on my sandwich wrapper last An “I’m-not-the-world’s- perately lacks capital investments income through capital gains and pay additional taxes will only derail Tuesday. biggest-trashcan” dart to all and overconsumes, so this only dividends get o with a lower tax rate the economy. From a girl who was go-go-go of the students who like to leave worsens that imbalance. A higher than a low income person. is com- all day and was glad to have a their trash all over me. capital gains tax also chases capital mon fallacy completely ignores the Daniel Wilson is a senior reason to stop and smile. From Carrier Library. overseas to countries like Switzer- double taxation of corporate income. economics major. Contact Daniel land that have no capital gains tax at Capital gains and dividends are at [email protected].
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ROBERT BOAG A6 Monday, February 20, 2012 breezejmu.org breezejmu.org Monday, February 20, 2012 A7 A8 Monday, February 20, 2012 breezejmu.org BARS | Bill could reduce apartment party sizes MEET THE EDITOR from page A5 a good time and are probably It’s a win-win for over the phone. So, advertising over the random apartment specials on the Internet would News Editor: Alison Parker Obviously, this could lead party scene that usually pre- both the tavern simply make that information to worse drinking patterns vails. Drawing seniors into the owners and for more convenient to access. We think it’s important for you to be able to learn and maybe even an increase bar scene could decrease the It’s a win-win for both the in drunk driving. size of big apartment parties. the 21-and-over tavern owners and for the about the people who edit your newspaper. Each week, This is a possible concern Of course, there are some customers. -and-over customers. The we will introduce you to one of our editors so you can for college towns like Harri- people who find ways to get bill is a simple way to put res- sonburg. But before people around the laws, but unlike taurants on level playing eld put a face to the paper we publish. jump to conclusions, I think other college towns, Harri- with other businesses, and we need to take a few steps sonburg bars are actually very particularly enjoy going out to customers can reap the bene- these artists if you’re in the back and analyze the poten- responsible when it comes to the bars during happy hours ts of having that information car with me or happen to tial bene ts. keeping the underage students are “regulars” and are already at their ngertips. walk outside my bathroom First of all, the crowds that out. Why? Because letting aware of many of the happy while I’m in the shower. make up Harrisonburg night- them in isn’t worth the risk hour specials o ered. Alina Gasperino 6. Believe it or not, being a life are mostly or older. having to pay the huge nes In fact, if a patron directly is a sophomore band geek at my high school Since this is a college town, a if they are caught. calls a restaurant to inquire communication studies was actually the cool thing to lot of the students downtown Secondly, non-student Har- about happy hour prices, it’s major. Contact Alina at do. I played French horn in are seniors who are looking for risonburg residents who legal to relay that information [email protected]. concert band and trumpet in jazz band. 7. Martinsville is home of the smallest paper clip-shaped NASCAR speedway. I refuse to go to a race because I’d 1. I’m a news editor. I send get incredibly bored watch- writers (or go myself) to ing drivers make a left turn You don’t chase ambulances, police for four hours. cars and anything else that 8. I have a dog named Jack, agree with smells like breaking news. who is half golden retriever 2. My favorite Starbucks and half chow. When he was everything drink is an apple chai infu- a puppy, my mom decided sion. It’s not on the menu, to enter him into this veteri- but they still make it if you nary magazine’s “Cutest Dog you read. ask for it. It’s heavenly, and in America” contest. He won. I’m more than likely seen 9. When I was , my family with one in hand at any took a vacation to the Grand given time. Canyon. We decided to go 3. Remember writing those horseback riding, which was personal statements to get supposed to be a guided tour into JMU? I wrote about a by a man who lived in the giant cockroach crawling Havasoupi village at the bot- up my dress in kindergarten tom. He told us to go ahead during story time. without him and that he’d 4. I compete in white-water catch up. He didn’t. We were kayaking races back home lost for hours, and the hors- Send us your in Martinsville and in some es went crazy and galloped other surrounding cities. My down the loose boulders. 250-word rst race was two summers 10. I wish I was a freshman ago in Kibler Valley, N.C. again. I’m graduating in response. — a . mile stretch, and December, and it’s slowly I finished in minutes. I hitting me that I’m not ended up placing rst in my percent sure what I want to age category, to . do with my life. Can’t I have breezeopinion 5. My favorite artists are more time?! @gmail.com. John Mayer, Jack’s Manne- quin, Maroon , the Hush Alison Parker is a junior Sound and Adele. You will media arts & design only have the pleasure of major. Contact Alison at ever hearing me sing to [email protected]. We’re fi nally laughing. Keep submitting your creative Darts & Pats at breezejmu.org.
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The JMU Jazz Band, directed by Taylor Barnett, played Radiohead’s “Everything in Its Right Place,” “Paranoid Android,” “All I Need” and “Morning Bell” at Thursday’s concert. Jazz Band, Ensemble perform Radiohead’s more experimental albums in nearly sold-out show
By JOHNATHAN RIVERA material was produced by arrangers from well-performed and well-executed,” tone for the night, showing a mash-up of and JEFF WADE across the United States, the Netherlands said Renna Wirchin, a sophomore the- moving jazz, orchestra instrumentation The Breeze and Germany, providing a combination atre and dance major, “and you could feel and Radiohead’s famous guitar and per- of popular alternative music and the tra- the excitement and passion both on stage cussion hooks. The music of Radiohead is usually ditional instrumentation of the classic big and in the audience.” According to Jazz Band director Tay- performed by ve English men, but on band to a nearly sold-out house. e concert began with the JMU Jazz lor Barnett, the inspiration for the event ursday, more than jazz musicains e two acts performed an hour-long Band’s performance of “Everything in came from a desire to bring jazz back to brought their music to life. set that covered songs, mostly from Its Right Place,” the opening track to its early days of interpreting the popular Performed by JMU’s Jazz Ensemble and the group’s early s recordings “Kid Radiohead’s album “Kid A.” The music of the time. Jazz Band at the Forbes Center for the Per- A,” “Amnesiac” and “Hail to the ief,” arrangement began with a tenor saxo- is combination could also be seen forming Arts, the Radiohead Jazz Project albums that had strong jazz and classi- phone solo. in “Knives Out,” performed by the Jazz saw both bands performing jazz arrange- cal in uences. is gentle solo was harmonized with ments of Radiohead’s music. e groups’ “The music was extremely rhythmic guitar and percussion. It set the see JAZZ, page A10
The fi rst steps Madison Dance Club hosts fundraising seminar Revamping prep rock Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio spins tunes for Festival crowd on Friday
By DICK WILLIAMS contributing writer
With breakdancing, freestyling, and DJing, University Program Board’s “Cool Aid” relief concert was enough to make audience members say, “Oh y e a h .” Friday night in the Festival Ball- room, student-run WXJM radio teamed up with UPB Spotlight to host the concert. Proceeds went to Harri- sonburg women’s shelters. It was the rst revenue event. “We really don't know what to expect,” said Kelly Johnson, a senior communications studies major and MEGAN TRINDELL / CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHER Spotlight Sounds committee chair. From left: Jenn Diefes, a freshman nursing major; Kelly DeRosa, a sophomore The evening was advertised as communication studies major; and Cameron Helble, a sophomore kinesiology a concert with DJ sets by local act major, lead a jazz class during Madison Dance Club’s workshop on Saturday. Hydrophonix (senior SMAD major Evan Morris) followed by Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio. By SANDY JOLLES ambitions. “We came for Hydrophonix at rst, The Breeze “I almost enjoy teaching more but after Baio started we really couldn't than dancing myself,” said Whitney, leave,” said Nicole Rudzik, a freshman Madison Dance Club’s workshop a senior social work major. “Putting engineering major. made leaps and bounds for dancers my choreography on another dancer e Break Dancing club, respective- of all experience levels on Saturday. and letting them interpret it is one of ly known as the B-Boys and B-Girls, Dancers taught choreographed the most inspiring things.” stopped by to start the concert off. combinations in jazz, hip-hop and Lead by junior sociology major Tyler contemporary dance to both JMU “I danced for four years, Van Parys, the group opened the students and the community. Within night accompanied by a mini-set from each class, students not only had the and I had been missing Hydrophonix. opportunity to learn combinations to this part of my life.” DJ Hydrophonix cited himself as dances, but also to receive guidance “creating unique sound textures with on technique and style. Jam Chookaew heavy drums and organic jazz and funk “I have little to no experience in freshman biology major samples in order to meld old and new dance, and I was still able to follow,” hip-hop.” said Kylie Donohoe, a freshman Starting with funkadelic jazz sam- SMAD-declared major. “ ey were ples for the B-Boy and Girls, Hydro willing to repeat steps as necessary.” Because dance team auditions are moved into more bass-oriented beat Club members used the teaching so competitive, many JMU dancers instrumentals to set the mood for the MATT SCHMACHTENBERG / THE BREEZE session — which attracted around may not get the opportunity to dance rest of the night. He even managed to Chris Baio teased fans by playing a remix of Vampire Weekend’s “White Sky.” students — as a way to help in an organized format. is work- freestyle for a bit, making a fairly inter- other dancers and as a fundraiser shop served as an opportunity to ested addition to his already sound Kelly Carlin, a freshman declared- set the night right. e ballroom was for both a workshop in New York not only branch out into potential- performance. SMAD major. lled with sets of speakers stacking up City at the Broadway Dance Center ly unfamiliar dancing styles, but it The crowd Friday night was thin, The set was very diverse, rang- well over eight feet o the ground to and a Relay for Life donation. also polished up techniques that with less than students lling the ing from heavy bass pounding to ensure that no one would miss a beat. “We decided to branch out and dancers can use in the next round Ballroom. e atmosphere was light, fast-paced, high-pitched electronic Lights hanging above the stage, offer this workshop because the of auditions. but overall it didn't diminish the event. rhythms. Those who’d never heard shone on both the crowd and walls girls of Madison Dance have a blast For freshman biology major Jam “[We're] really happy how it turned Vampire Weekend before would never creating a kaleidoscopic e ect during performing and practicing, and we Chookaew, the workshop gave her out,” said junior communication stud- have known Baio was the bassist, as his the upbeat numbers. DJ Baio clapped wanted to share that joy with others,” a chance to dance that she never ies major Marisa Cagnoli, a WXJM DJ set was almost contradictory to Vam- in beat with the crowd in synch with a said Julia D’Esterre, a sophomore had coming to JMU. After a foot who helped plan the event. pire Weekend’s signature “prep” style. number of the songs as the strobe lights SMAD major and secretary of MDC. accident in the beginning of the By p.m., Baio was on the scene Mixing in pop synth with metronom- ashed and the ground rumbled. MDC is made up of four teams — school year, Chookaew waited for and the concert truly began. Sampling ic claps in a completely electro-esque But Baio’s DJ sets don’t mean that street, hip-hop, contemporary and an opportunity to come up. songs like Queen’s “Another One Bites fashion, Baio put on a solid show, and the band isn’t ready for a third album. jazz. Kaitlin Whitney, who headed “I danced for four years, and I the Dust” and Kool and the Gang’s made a nod to his day job by nishing “We’re working,” he said. choreography for the contemporary had been missing this part of my “Jungle Boogie,” DJ Baio made the wait up with a remix of Vampire Weekend's team, has been dancing since child- life,” Chookaew said. “Even after worthwhile. “White Sky.” CONTACT Dick Williams at hood. Now in college, teaching has “I'd seen Vampire Weekend before, Along with Baio, UPB brought in [email protected]. also made an impact on her dancing see DANCE, page A10 but it was a completely di erent,” said lighting and sound from Richmond to A10 Monday, February 20, 2012 breezejmu.org life Movie Review Too-tame ‘Ghost Rider’ sequel all caged up By Jeff Wade interchangeable bad dudes The Breeze charred to CGI ashes. Ghost Rider: Making the title character Spirit of “Ghost Rider: Spirit of into a Frankenstein-inspired Vengeance” is a cinematic force of pure id rather than Vengeance triumph, filled with moving the kind of boring diet-Hulk performances, believable of the first film is a great idea, ‘PG-13’ 95 min. characterizations and a but doesn’t pay off as all of the Starring Nicolas Cage, fascinating plot filled with action comes across as bland. Ciarán Hinds, Idris Elba ambiguity and nuance. And every second the Rider is Just kidding. It’s a movie on the screen, the film can’t Late in the film, mercenary- where Nicholas Cage plays a wrestle any insanity out of turned-devil’s-lackey Carrigan hellfire skeleton biker. Cage. (Johnny Whitworth) is given Ostensibly a sequel to the Even with a few interesting the power to instantly decay 2007 film, “Vengeance” keeps and jumpy editing cuts or anything he touches. He Cage and ditches pretty much cheeky animated interludes, it ruffles around in a lunchbox, everything else. Tasked with all feels like higher ups forcing pulling out a sandwich that tracking down a child (Fergus them to tone it town. instantly molds and an apple Riordan) who’s being chased There are individual that rots in his hands. He down for a ritual to restore Courtesy of colombia Pictures moments that seem lifted out finally reaches for a Twinkie Satan’s (Ciarán Hinds) power, In “Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance” the film’s action set piece desperately reaches for cool, and fails. of a much better version of this he’s able to chow down on stuntman/aforementioned movie, surprisingly in most of without a problem. hellfire skeleton biker Johnny and Brian Taylor seem well serious actor, but at least But the perfect-on-paper the performances. It all just seems too clever Blaze (I hesitate to use a suited for making the most out Cage circa 2012 would be match never quite works out. Idris Elba continues his for “Ghost Rider 2,” a movie character name seeing as Cage of stupid material. After all, unhinged enough to match Maybe it’s the PG-13 rating. tradition of taking movie roles that could have been pretty is so content to just be Cage-y these are the people who took the pair’s usual go-for-broke A lot of what made the “Crank” that are far below his station. great, or at least greatly here) sets out to rid himself of action movies to their absolute style. Despite being relatively films work were their total and “The Wire” star plays Moreau, bad. But it ends up being those flaming headaches. extreme with the surprisingly restrained for most of the unwavering commitment to an alcoholic French priest something even worse There was reason to expect sublime “Crank: High Voltage.” movie, Cage gets at least some of the most cartoonish and at least has some fun with — boring. that “Vengeance” could have And obviously the movie two patented freak-outs that violence committed to a thankless role. Same with some fun with all of this. wasn’t going to usher in the should make for fun YouTube celluloid. In “Vengeance,” Hinds, who must be pretty full Contc a t Jeff Wade at Directing duo Mark Neveldine return of Nicholas Cage, viewing down the line. it’s reduced to a series of with how he chews scenery. [email protected].
Movie Review J azz | Alum returns I was really worried that the from page A9 JMU student body wouldn’t ‘Secret World’ an obvious delight like the jazz twist to it.” Ensemble. Starting off with JMU alumnus Omar By Kenneth Turan a haunting piano solo, the Thomas, who arranged the Los Angeles Times T he Secret arrangement still rocked with Radiohead Jazz Project’s “Sail World of a grand electric guitar solo, to the Moon,” made a guest “Wonder” is the watchword performed by Kevin Hinder. appearance at the concert to in “The Secret World of Arrietty One of the best changes of conduct his arrangment. Arrietty.” Set in an enchanting pace for the Radiohead Jazz The track was the most locale where the potential ‘G’ 94 min. Project was the arrangement forceful arrangement of the for magic is everywhere, this Starring Bridgit Mendler, of “In Rainbows” ballad “All I concert, thanks to the bigger- impeccable animated film Amy Poehler, Will Arnett Need,” performed by the Jazz than-life performance by the puts its complete trust in Band. Jazz Ensemble. the spirit of make-believe. wouldn't be, and though he This performance had Thomas is the compos- Beautiful, gentle and pure and Arrietty would like to powerhouse orchestra, er for and the conductor — but not without elements pursue a friendship, father catchy guitar play and a stir- of the Omar Thomas Large of genuine menace — it will Courtesy of MCT Campus Pod is adamant that this kind ring trumpet solo. Ensemble. The 18-piece make believers out of adults Pint-sized heroine Arrietty joins the rich tradition of strong female of thing never works. “Many “It consists of different ensemble’s first album, “I and children alike. characters from Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli. borrowers have lost their lives,” arrangements, different Am,” will be released in 2012. Based on Mary Norton's he tells her, “thinking the styles, different writings and celebrated 1952 novel “The Miyazaki works, this film also is how splendidly detailed same.” different recordings,” said Contc a t Jonathan Borrowers,” “The Secret features an intrepid female director Yonebayashi and his Though its overall tone is Chuck Dotas, the director Rivera and Jeff Wade at World of Arrietty” has been hero, this time no taller than a team have made this small, charming, the film has been of Jazz Studies at JMU. “But [email protected]. on the mind of Japan's Hayao teacup. small world. The rope and able to work disturbing peril Miyazaki, the great animator That would be Arrietty, duct tape logistics involved in into its scenario, both from the of the modern age, for more one of a race of tiny gleaners a borrower raid into human natural world — a fierce crow than 40 years. He did not who, in novelist Norton's territory are formidable, and is determined to eat Arrietty direct this version himself, but splendid notion, manage the little people involved at all costs — and, more Da nce | ‘For all’ having planned and written to live alongside standard- need to be part mountain intriguingly, from humans, the screenplay and hand- sized people by means of climber and part Navy SEAL who by virtue of their size from page A9 experiences” rang true for the picked director Hiromasa adroit pilferage of minuscule commando to have even a create chaos for the borrowers workshop’s participants. Yonebayashi, Miyazaki and amounts of human supplies. chance of success. And all to without even meaning to. this hiatus of not dancing, it Participants paid $5 per his elevating, protective spirit “Borrowers take only what get a single lump of sugar that It's a tribute to how real this was nice jumping right back class, or $15 for the entire hover over this production like they need,” says Arrietty's stoic will last for months. universe has been made into the technique.” workshop. a most benevolent deity. dad, Pod, sternly, and he never On her first official onscreen that the film makes Some elements of the work- “As a club, we don’t real- “Arrietty,” the feature debut strays from the creed. borrowers mission, Arrietty us genuinely fear for the shop may prove challenging to ly travel anywhere outside of of Yonebayashi, has many of Living with her family in finds a dressmaker's pin that is borrowers' lives even though a burgeoning dancer, however. JMU,” said Heather Ballew, the trademarks of Miyazaki's a tiny but comfortable space the perfect size for a weapon. we know we don't really have “The most challenging thing a senior IDLS major. “For magical Studio Ghibli below the floorboards of a She also gets seen by Shawn, to. for any dancer is adjusting to this [New York] trip, we productions, including a Japanese country house, a 14-year-old boy newly What makes “The Secret the choreographer’s style,” would be able to learn from reverence for the natural world Arrietty brazenly runs through arrived at the house. A sickly World of Arrietty” transporting Whitney said. “The great different choreographers and the ability to reproduce the garden in full daylight on lad, neglected by his parents, in this country is the same thing about the workshop is and challenge ourselves it in ravishing, hand-drawn daring foraging expeditions, Shawn has been sent to the thing that made it succeed that there is no pressure to be with new dance styles.” animation detail. fending off menacing country to rest up before heart in Japan: the film's ability to perfect.” Like the Oscar-winning grasshoppers and outfoxing an surgery. create a special and marvelous In their advertisements on Contc a t Sandy Jolles at “Spirited Away,” “Kiki's apoplectic cat. Shawn is captivated by his world for audiences to enter. Facebook and around cam- [email protected]. Delivery Service” and other One pleasure of this film glimpse of Arrietty, as who pus, the words “for all dance S weeney | Show technologically advanced
from front mixing colors for the set. Ryan Orr, a senior theatre a 1,000-pound unit, which must and dance major and assistant be pushed across the stage set designer for the show, decid- by the crew the night of the ed last semester to work on the performance. set for “Sweeney Todd” under Students in the Theatre 171 Burgess. class work behind the scenes “This is the culmination of on production nights, helping everything I’ve learned here,” to provide the extra manpower Orr said. “This is the biggest necessary for a smooth show. project I’ve been involved in. I Volunteers and practicum stu- felt like it would be a good test dents of varying majors, like of everything I’ve done so far.” business and marketing, also Shane Dreher, a junior the- propel the production. atre and dance major and the All things paint-related go set’s prop master, has spent the through Taylor Faulkinberry past five weeks going through Becky Sullivan / The Breeze and her assistant Emily Cau- the script and coming up with Painters add final touches to Pirelli’s wagon. The sold-out Forbes thorne, both senior theatre and all the “unseen” properties of performance of “Sweeney Todd” will premiere tomorrow night. dance majors. Their responsi- the show, like guns, cups, sil- bilities include making texture verware, furniture, tapestries then ventured out to antique With only a short time and color samples for the set and pictures, to make the show stores. The biggest challenge remaining until the curtain director and instructing other as authentic as possible. for Dreher has been finding the draws, the technical and design painters. “If you were to move, every- perfect “blood knives,” or razors, crew is feeling confident. “Since [the play] takes place thing you would put in a moving that Sweeney Todd uses on his “I just see some last-minute in a time when it’s very dirty van falls under me, even the victims. adjustments,” Faulkinberry said. and grungy, we were constantly stuff that’s not mentioned that “We tried getting actual “I don’t think we’ll be too crazy.” making new colors,” Cauthorne you would have in a home,” Dre- razors from that time period, For Burgess, who has recent- said. her said. but the blades were too thin,” ly been spending 14-16 hours Faulkinberry and Cauthorne After reading through the Dreher said. “We actually ended a day finalizing set details, the used photos of London during script, Dreher compiled a list up getting flat aluminum and show also holds some senti- the 1840s as inspiration when of all the items he’ll need and making them ourselves.” mental value. After four years as director of technical pro- duction, he’s had the chance to work with students from their freshman to senior years. “The most exciting part for James McHone Jewelry me is watching their develop- DIAMOND OF THE WEEK ment and watching what they’re capable of doing on this show — because they’re extraordinary,” 14K White Filigree Diamond Ring Burgess said. Center Diamond 0.60cts At the end of the day, Burgess hopes “Sweeney Todd” will be Clarity SI2 & H Color remembered as one of Forbes’ “premiere challenges.” “Some plays you have to This Week $1,700 design,” Burgess said, “and some plays you just see. I saw this one.” All of our diamonds are graded by an on staff GIA Diamond Graduate Contc a t Laura Weeks at Visit us at 75 S. Court Square Harrisonburg or www.mchonejewelry.com [email protected]. s ports savvy? we want you.
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Casey Ancarrow is a redshirt junior attacker and co-captain on the ninth-ranked women’s lacrosse team. Ancarrow is a psychology major with a philosophy and religion minor. courtesy of trevon flores Currently, she’s also 1 of 53 players in the nation on the LEFT Former center Trevon Flores takes a three-point shot last season watch list for the Tewaaraton against Virginia Commonwealth. He changed his number to 42 this season Trophy, awarded the nation’s to honor the age of his mother when she died. Flores left JMU after the fall best college lacrosse player. semester to be closer to home and with his family. RIGHT Flores said his mother, who died of lupus, was his best friend. When did you realize you wanted to pursue lacrosse? I went to a camp DAN GORIN / FILE PHOTO when I was in eighth grade, I think. There was this lacrosse player I was pretty much T revon Flores, a former Duke, opens up about his reasons for leaving his school and team behind obsessed with, and she was there, and I ended up getting camp MVP. I would say that By Emmie Cleveland me happened,” Flores said. “Because feeling began to catch up to him off brother, taking him to movies or buy- summer before I got to high The Breeze even now, it seems like it’s not real. My the court as well. ing him shoes and clothes — things school was kind of when I best friend, my mom, is gone.” “Some nights, I would just be too their mom used to do. realized it was something I Trevon Flores’ purple No. 42 jersey His mother’s death is something sad to do anything,” Flores said. “I “I know going to a different school really wanted to concentrate on. hung from his 6-foot-11, 230-pound Flores has kept to himself, only recent- would just cry all night or I would wasn’t really going to change any- I started to play club lacrosse, frame at the Philly Hoop Group Clas- ly opening up about his reason for wake up and cry. I would walk down thing that happened, because nothing and I knew that’s what I wanted sic in November. He looked into the leaving JMU. the street and something would trig- is going to bring my mom back, and to play in college. stands and was consumed by a famil- “I would say that on the outside, ger a memory, and I would just start nothing is going to stop coaches from Y our team has been very iar gust of grief. you probably wouldn’t be able to tell bawling in front of everybody. It didn’t yelling or me having a bad day,” Flores successful since you’ve “Seeing everybody’s moms taking that he was going through something,” matter where I was. I was breaking said. “But I just feel like being closer played here. What are you pictures of them, that just made me said redshirt junior forward Andrey down everywhere.” to home really helps a lot, especially most excited about this realize, damn, I was down,” he said. Semenov. “But we all knew that it was He makes the hour-and-a-half trek seeing my little brother and knowing season? If I didn’t redshirt, “I couldn’t believe it.” really troubling him.” home (as opposed to seven hours he’s happy when I’m around.” this would have been my true The former center’s mom died in Flores has been playing basketball from Harrisonburg) almost every Flores will play basketball for senior season. There are 10 August after battling lupus, an auto- since he was 6 years old, but until weekend to see his grandparents, Northern Kentucky starting next fall girls that I came in with, as a immune disease. It’s the reason that now, it’s never had to be an outlet for stepdad and 9-year-old brother. with two years of NCAA eligibility left. freshman, and three of us got a week before finals last semester, he him. “I try to help [my brother] out, but Recently, JMU has struggled with hurt and redshirted. So as it decided to leave JMU. Now, Flores Though basketball was often used he doesn’t really understand what its line-up. Accommodating various is, there are actually 11 of us goes to Northern Kentucky Univer- as an escape, sometimes the grief fol- happened,” Flores said. “And I don’t injuries, the Dukes have played nine now that have been playing sity, a Division II school that’s closer lowed Flores onto the court. A coach really understand what happened. different starting squads this season. together for four years. Most to home. yelling or an off day could bring him He’ll say little stuff that makes me Flores started at the center of us are starters with big roles “They wanted me to stop doing down further instead of relieving sad all the time, like, ‘That’s mommy’s position in four of his five games on the team. I know it’s going school for a little bit, just sit back stress. favorite song,’ or something.” to be good because we don’t and realize that what happened to The sorrow and anguish Flores was He spends a lot of time with his see FLorES, page A12 have an excuse not to have a good season. This is what we’ve been looking forward to for four years, and we’re working with a lot of experienced players. What do you enjoy outside of the game? I mean I really basketball (82-70) wm o en’s club rugby (45-10) like traveling. I like pretty much everything outdoors. I love music festivals. I got to go to Bonnaroo with some friends Avenging the past this past summer, and it was awesome. I play the banjo. Dukes take a knee H ow is the JMU team unlike any other you’ve been on? Everyone on the team is completely different, Brady suffers torn ACL, misses Bracketbusters which is great. I think that’s why we get along very well. One competition against University of Detroit Mercy thing that I think really sets us apart … our sideline yells so much. I think it even scares By Stephen Proffitt off other teams. But every girl The Breeze has their own personality, and M en’s basketball it brings a fun dynamic to the The Dukes have another injury to game. add to a shortened bench this season: schedule that of head coach Matt Brady. n Wednesday @ Drexel, 7 p.m. Coach Shelley Klaes- Brady, who tore his ACL practic- n Saturday against Towson, 4 p.m. Bawcombe is a JMU ing with the team on Thursday, didn’t n March 2 — first round of CAA alumna. Does that bring make the trip to Detroit with the tournament in Richmond anything extra to the Dukes on Saturday. Associate head n March 3 — quarterfinals program? She loves, lives coach Rob O’Driscoll was instated as n March 4 — semifinals and breathes JMU. She just the interim head coach and in charge n March 5 — championship compares what we do to what paul jones / the breeze for Saturday’s game. Brady, who lis- she did and reminds us of how tened to the game from his home, is Junior Cindy Chao breezes past Longwood University defenders. The we should have so much pride scheduled for surgery today. Dukes defeated the Lancers 45-10, avenging last semester’s 15-10 loss. in JMU. She’s really shown us The Dukes, (11-18, 4-12 CAA) were how we should feel when we’re down by 18 in the first half of the game playing, and she inspires us all and didn’t have the energy down the Dukes squash Longwood during rematch every day. And knowing how stretch to bring home a win. she would give anything to be Senior guard Humpty Hitchens, here, playing again, we realize who hurt his left shoulder Wednes- By Chase Kiddy faint of heart. Unlike football that what we’re doing is really day against Georgia State, did make The Breeze players, these girls do it with- special. the trip with the team, but didn’t see out pads and without the time T alk about the excitement any playing time. Hits, trips, strips and trucks to rest or recover in between of heading to California to With Hitchens out, O’Driscoll was that make you inhale with plays. Rugby moves continu- play two good opponents forced to use a rotation of only seven wonder every time you hear a ously. Play doesn’t even stop — California and players against the Titans. collision between bodies on the for injuries, and there are plen- Standford. We haven’t ever Redshirt junior forward Gene rugby field. ty of them. gone to the West Coast since Swindle stepped up for the Dukes and The sport requires selfless- With all this physical con- I’ve been here. Some people had a career game in points, rebounds ness in passing and maturity to tact, rugby can get heated. have never even flown before. and minutes. Swindle scored 10 move seamlessly without hesi- Saturday’s match against Long- We’ve had a Florida trip before, points and picked up eight rebounds tation from offense to defense. wood was especially aggressive, but we’ve never gone West, in his 36 minutes of playtime. The women’s rugby team as the Dukes looked to avenge and it’s a nice surprise. We’ll be Redshirt junior guard A.J. Davis played a nearly flawless game last semester’s 15-10 loss to the seeing good competition, and also finished strong with 26 points, on Saturday against Longwood, Lancers. the university’s flying us all out marking the third time this season defeating it 45-10. JMU drove down and scored at there. We’re still getting ready he has surpassed the 25-point mark. “We definitely stepped up and the outset of the game, but each for a lot of things like time The next few games could be ryan freeland / the breeze played together as a team,” said team quickly found themselves change. Even the first day we challenging for the battered Dukes Janna Kline, senior co-captain. locked in a scrum. The ball criss- Head coach Matt Brady missed his first get there, we’re going straight as they travel to Philadelphia on They allowed only one try per crossed the field frequently, but career game on Saturday because of an from the airport to practice, so Wednesday night to take on Drexel half and scored almost at will each team made several impres- injury from Thursday’s practice. This is we’re preparing to work through before returning home for their last for most of the game. It all led sive defensive stops. JMU held the first game he’s missed as being either being tired. We want to have home game of the regular season. to an effort that many, includ- a slight 10-5 lead early before a head or an assistant coach. fun, but we want to get some ing Coach Roshna Wunderlich, breaking the game open and wins out of it, too. Conta ct Stephen Proffitt described as the best outing of scoring nine tries. at [email protected]. the season. “Ultimately our goal was to “It was great. We really score a lot, and it was great to >> For the complete interview, played the game we have been see all that come together on the visit breezejmu.org. practicing,” Wunderlich said. Women’s rugby is not for the see RUGBY, page A12 A12 Monday, February 20, 2012 breezejmu.org sports U.Va. proves its tourney worth R ugby | Young team is promising
With win over Maryland, Cavaliers may be NCAA contenders
Daily Press Maryland was U.Va.’s larg- body language that he was kind est margin of victory at home of frustrated.” After losing three of its last against an ACC opponent since Despite shooting just 32.1 four games, including two in Jan. 29, 1991, when it defeated percent in the first half, Mary- a row, the general consensus N.C. State 104-72. land (15-11, 5-7) managed to surrounding the University “We prepared hard,” said tie the game 31-31 at halftime of Virginia’s men’s basketball U.Va. coach Tony Bennett of by virtue of hot perimeter program was that Saturday’s his team’s mindset entering shooting. game against the University of the Maryland game. “We knew Maryland made 7 of 13 shots Maryland would serve as a key we’d have to ratchet it up or from 3-point range in the first indicator about whether the turn up the volume in terms half, including a late trio of Cavaliers are NCAA tourna- of intensity from start to finish. 3-pointers from Stoglin in a ment material. There wasn’t an option.” span of 1 minute and 27 sec- Mike Scott’s shooting and Scott made 10 of 20 field onds, but the Terrapins were a determined defensive effort goals, including five of his first 2 of 15 from inside the 3-point against the Atlantic Coast Con- seven shots, to lead U.Va. to line in the half. ference’s leading scorer paved a 50-percent shooting effort. While Maryland missed 10 the way for No. 22 U.Va.’s con- Malcolm Brogdon added 14 consecutive shots early in the paul jones / the breeze vincing 71-44 victory against points on five of six shooting second half, U.Va. put the game Sophomore Molly Maffei stiff-arms a Longwood University player during a game on Saturday. Maryland. Now, with regu- from the floor, while Sammy out of reach via a 16-0 run that lar-season games at Virginia Zeglinski scored 11 points. gave the Cavaliers a 47-33 from page A11 spring, so Saturday’s breakout Tech and Maryland and home Maryland’s Terrell Stoglin, advantage with 12:26 remain- performers like Mundy really R emaining games against North Carolina who entered the game aver- ing. Scott, who excelled coming field today and see us achieve give the team something to spring semester and Florida State left, U.Va.’s aging an ACC-best 21.7 points off screens and shooting his our goal,” said sophomore Cate look forward to down the road. tournament résumé-building per contest, was held to 14 on fadeaway jumper, scored seven Mundy. “Seeing younger players schedule process is about to pick up. 4 of 17 shooting. Jontel Evans, points during the run. Mary- Mundy’s story starts when step up and play well is like n Saturday @ Shippensburg “We need every game, but a Bethel High graduate, and land never got within 12 points she walked on to the team in seeing the future of the rugby University it’s not time to panic,” said Brogdon handled most of the the rest of the way. the fall of 2010. Saturday was team, right now,” said Kelsi Kao n March 3-4 — Virginia Scott, who scored his ACC defensive duties against Stog- “They were clearly the team her first time scoring and she senior co-captain. Women’s Invitational career high of 25 points. “We lin, who went scoreless in the that wanted it more today,” racked up a game-high three After spring break, wom- Tournament @ U.Va. turned the ball over at Clemson second half. Maryland coach Mark Tur- tries for 15 points. She effec- en’s rugby will host a n March 17 — against [in a Tuesday loss]. At Carolina, “[Stoglin] and his team- geon said. “They were coming tively outscored Longwood on playoff game against the Uni- George Washington we didn’t defend, so we just mates were talking to the ref [in out of three of four losses, and her own. versity of Maryland, in hopes n March 24 — Mid-Atlantic erased our mistakes [against the second half],” Evans said. it showed. We had a two-point The immediate outlook from of carrying its strong play Rugby Football Union Maryland].” “That’s when I knew they were lead (33-31) in the second half, Saturday was a win, but the further into the postseason. Quarterfinals @ Maryland U.Va. (20-6 overall, 7-5 ACC) getting frustrated. He wasn’t and then it was all them — total future looks bright for the team n April 14 @ Va. Tech reached 20 wins for the first hitting his shots that he usual- domination.” as well. Several seniors will Contc a t Chase Kiddy at time since 2007. The win against ly hits, and I could see it in his be leaving the team after this [email protected].
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